Removing Glued Down Vinyl Flooring

Cut out the subfloor and linoleum or vinyl flooring as one piece.

Removing glued down vinyl flooring. If you remove vinyl flooring but the glue remains lodged on the subfloor try this. You may need either a crowbar or chisel and hammer to pop the tiles off the floor. Step 5 remove the adhesive. To remove old resilient flooring first cut it into parallel strips about 6 inches wide with a utility knife.

How to remove vinyl tile glue from wood floors. Use a hammer to tap a stiff putty knife or brick chisel under the linoleum to break it loose. Glued down linoleum and vinyl flooring can be removed from a wood floor without causing too much damage to the wood if you re prepared for a fair investment of time and elbow grease. A glued down floor refers to flooring installed on a concrete or plywood subfloor with adhesive.

Once you get the vinyl planks up you will most likely still have some adhesive on the floor. Use the heat gun to heat up the adhesive and it should become soft. Scrape linoleum or vinyl floor glue. Use the utility knife to cut straight down the middle of your vinyl floor.

Vinyl tiles and sheet vinyl as well as some types of hardwood and carpet are installed using an. Get rid of the glue. Typically vinyl flooring is perimeter installed meaning there s no glue or adhesive in the middle of the floor. Combine warm water and soap in a bucket then apply it liberally to the glue.

Next move about 12 inches to the right or left and cut a strip parallel to the first. Whether it is the entire floor or just the perimeter glued down flooring is best removed through tenacious hard scraping. After that you may need to wipe the floor down with a little alcohol and a rag to remove the residue from the. Here s how to go about it.

If the glue has a very strong hold you may even need to cut the tiles and pry them up piece by piece to get them. Begin by doing as much of the prying as possible with the tip of a flat pry bar chiseling under the vinyl to separate it from the underlayment.